Linked to the Chain Gang Trivia Quiz

Answer: Chain letter

Chain letters have existed for quite a while but their prominence is clearly visible in the email inboxes (or junk mail folders) across the web. Quite often, these are scams. The general idea is to send the email to as many people as possible in order to fulfill somewhat of an objective (and in many cases, this objective will involve saving you from death or an unpleasantness). Attached to these emails, one will often find a quiz, an advertisement, or an unnecessary money hoax for a Nigerian president.
The concept for this can be seen in the film "The Ring", which uses the idea of a killer video tape that requires copying and viewing to be beaten. This is also explored in the online video series "5 or Die" by Tom Holland.

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Answer: Hercule Poirot

The links golf course, often located in sandy, coastal areas, originated in Scotland in the 15th century and is the oldest style of golf course. Agatha Christie's "The Murder on the Links", first published in 1923, is the second novel starring the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, along with his friend and sidekick Captain Arthur Hastings. This story features a subplot in which Hastings meets his future wife, Dulcie Duveen.

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Answer: The Midocean Ridge

The Midocean Ridge is about 47,000 miles long. It runs from Iceland in the North Atlantic Ocean, down the Atlantic, round the bottom of Africa, through the Indian Ocean, south of Australia and then north into the Pacific Ocean.

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Answer: Arizona

Joe Arpaio was elected Sheriff in 1992, and at his induction he claimed to be the toughest sheriff in America. He housed inmates in the Arizona desert, in tents, where temperatures reached 120F. Sherriff Joe Arpaio also made the male inmates wear pink underwear.

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Answer: Sea of Sorrow

Alice in Chains is a grunge band that was formed in Seattle, Washington in 1987 by Jerry Cantrell and Layne Staley. They were one of the most successful bands of the 1990s and sold over 14 million albums. Later in the 90s the band became increasingly inactive, due to the drug use of lead singer, Layne Staley. He died from a mixture of heroin and cocaine in April of 2002. They reunited in 2005 with a new lead singer, William Duvall.

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Answer: Kingdom Hearts

In "Kingdom Hearts," you are given a companion to travel with. This companion is Jiminy the Cricket. He keeps records of everything you have done, things you have seen, and even how many of each enemy you have fought and beaten! It is all in his tiny journal. In one part of his journal, he draws pictures of your characters, the characters from that land, the enemies from that land, and, in "Kingdom Hearts 2", members of Organization XIII. This is how you can see which character relates to which character, and how. You can click each picture in this chart to see a brief description of each character. "Kingdom Hearts" was made for the PS2 in 2002, and the second was made in 2005.

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Answer: 5,000,000

On December 11, 2004, over five million people joined hands to form a human chain, 1,050 km (652.4 miles) long from Teknaf to Tentulia, Bangladesh. This event happened because people lost confidence in their government in Bangladesh and decided to protest.
The chain would have been longer but 1,100 protesters were arrested before the event.

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Answer: Toby Keith

This album was released on August 10, 2001. It sold two million copies and went Multi-Platinum twice in the United States. The album was Toby Keith's sixth studio album. Toby Keith is from the state of Oklahoma and was born in 1961. He worked in the oil industry and played amateur football before he started his musical career.

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Answer: A tennis court

The chain unit was devised in the seventeenth century by an English astronomer known as Edmund Gunter and was designed so that ten square chains were equivalent to one acre of land. Despite the fact that chains are a more or less obsolete measurement in present times, in the US the progressive spread of a wildfire is currently measured in chains.

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Answer: Don Covay

Don Covay originally wrote "Chain of Fools" in 1953, even recording the song himself, but his version went nowhere on the charts.
A version of "Chain of Fools" was recorded by Vince Gill and the Pointer Sisters for the 1993 album "Rhythm, Country and Blues", and also featured in the 1991 movie "The Commitments".
Aretha has recorded songs written by the other writers as well, most notably "Respect", which was written by Otis Redding.

I would also like to thank Songfacts for providing the information for this question.

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